From raw to cooked: prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India
Grain, grape, olive: ancient Greece and imperial Rome
Crazy bread, coffee, and courtly manners: Christendom, Islam and Byzantium in the Middle Ages, 500-1300
Tea, chocolate, and the first cookbook: medieval Asia, the Americas, and Renaissance Europe to 1500
The Columbian exchange and the Protestant reformation: sugar and vice in the sixteenth century
Thanksgiving, Hutspot, and Haute cuisine: seventeenth-century America, the Netherlands, Russia, France
Election cake and "let them eat cake": the American and French revolutions
the eighteenth century and the enlightenment
From coyotes to Coca-Cola: the nineteenth century in America
Sanitation, nutrition, colonization: the nineteenth century in Europe, Asia, and Africa
The purity crusade, cuisine classique, and communal food: the early twentieth century in Europe and the United States
Prohibition, soup kitchens, spam, and TV dinners: the roaring twenties, the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War
Revolutions in cuisines and cultures: from "bon appétit" to "bam!" the 1960s into the New Millennium
Recipes, menus, and ingredients
Food fables/culinary confusions/crossing cultures
